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Multimedia Systems
Erschienen in: Multimedia Systems 5/2014

01.10.2014 | Special Issue Paper

Dissecting the protocol and network traffic of the OnLive cloud gaming platform

verfasst von: M. Manzano, M. Urueña, M. Sužnjević, E. Calle, J. A. Hernández, M. Matijasevic

Erschienen in: Multimedia Systems | Ausgabe 5/2014

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Abstract

Cloud gaming is a new paradigm that is envisaged to play a pivotal role in the video game industry in forthcoming years. Cloud gaming, or gaming on demand, is a type of online gaming that allows on-demand streaming of game content onto non-specialised devices (e.g. PC, smart TV, etc.). This approach requires no downloads or game installation because the actual game is executed on the game company’s server and is streamed directly to the client. Nonetheless, this revolutionary approach significantly affects the network load generated by online games. As cloud gaming presents new challenges for both network engineers and the research community, both groups need to be fully conversant with these new cloud gaming platforms. The purpose of this paper is to investigate OnLive, one of the most popular cloud gaming platforms. Our key contributions are: (a) a review of the state-of-the-art of cloud gaming; (b) reverse engineering of the OnLive protocol; and (c) a synthetic traffic model for OnLive.
Vorheriger Artikel Guest editorial: special issue on network and systems support for games
Nächster Artikel On the performance of OnLive thin client games

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Fußnoten
1
To simplify the description of the OnLive session, we will name the different protocols and roles of OnLive servers that have been identified, although the different roles may be performed by the same physical server.
 
2
While we have identified more fields and the different message types of this custom protocol, they are not described here for sake of clarity.
 
3
This port is dynamic and larger than the OnLive’s 16,384 default one. The port number is notified to the client using the custom protocol encapsulated in echo RTP messages from the server.
 
4
Interestingly, the muting audio option does not interrupt the audio flows, but simply notifies the client not to play them.
 
9
This video frame splitting is performed at the application layer, that is, several RTP messages are generated, instead of a single UDP packet being fragmented by the IP layer.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Dissecting the protocol and network traffic of the OnLive cloud gaming platform
verfasst von
M. Manzano
M. Urueña
M. Sužnjević
E. Calle
J. A. Hernández
M. Matijasevic
Publikationsdatum
01.10.2014
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Multimedia Systems / Ausgabe 5/2014
Print ISSN: 0942-4962
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1882
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-014-0370-4

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